Subhash Kak quotes:

Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today.

Gods have many faces.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.